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Films: Director examines healing from surgery, grief

Robert David Jaffee March 8, 2008

Seated at his office in Beverly Hills, Ben Mittleman, 57, doesn\’t have a trace of gray in his sandy-brown hair. He says his mother used to kid him that he must have had a \”facelift or something,\” but despite the fact that this veteran TV actor turned director-producer looks 10 years younger than his age, he underwent heart surgery in 2001. That experience is the subject of \”Dying to Live,\” along with his response to the cancers that later took the lives of both his mother and his wife, Valerie. The film premieres Thursday, March 13, at Laemmle\’s Music Hall, where it will screen for two weeks.

Calendar Girls picks and kicks for March 8 -15

Dikla Kadosh March 8, 2008

Calendar Girls picks and kicks for March 8 -15

Movies: ‘Chicago 10’ finds modern parallels to 1968 trial

Pat Sierchio February 29, 2008

\”I have a strong kinship with Abbie Hoffman,\” admitted Brett Morgen, writer and director of the semidocumentary film, \”Chicago 10.\” \”I haven\’t seen anyone in my lifetime that spoke to me the way he did.\” It was during the 1969 Chicago conspiracy trial that Hoffman and his co-defendants were dubbed \”The Chicago 8.\” The radical group also included Yippie co-founder Jerry Rubin and Tom Hayden, a future California assemblyman and state senator. While researching his film, Morgen found an interview with Rubin that said they should be called the Chicago 10 because their lawyers, William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass, were charged and sentenced for contempt. Taking his cue from Rubin, Morgen named his film \”Chicago 10.\”

How the West was funny

Tom Tugend February 15, 2008

We haven\’t kept up with Ari Sandel since the nice Jewish boy from Calabasas came out of nowhere last year to win an Oscar for his hilarious short film \”West Bank Story.\” His second venture, \”Vince Vaughn\’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights — Hollywood to the Heartland,\” has opened to excellent reviews and is now playing in general release.

Film shows Down syndrome no obstacle to prayer

Rebecca Wolfson February 8, 2008

Lior Liebling davens everywhere: in the backyard, in school and on the swing set. Some congregants at his synagogue, Mishkan Shalom of Mount Arie, Pa., call him the \”little rebbe.\”

\”The Zohar tells stories of miracle children who were spiritual geniuses,\” one synagogue member said. \”Well, that\’s what Lior is.\”

Lior is the 13-year-old featured in the new documentary, \”Praying With Lior,\” which highlights the bar mitzvah of a Jewish child living with Down syndrome. The character study of this boy tells of how Lior\’s community successfully integrates him into communal life — a challenge many Jewish communities face with mentally and physically disabled members.

Yiddish theater documentary opens, thanks to WWW

Tom Tugend November 16, 2007

For independent filmmakers Dan Katzir and Ravit Markus, making \”Yiddish Theater: A Love Story\” was the easy part; booking the documentary into a commercial venue where people could see it was the real struggle. After two years of rebuffs, the director and producer of \”Yiddish Theater\” can now pop open the champagne. The feel-good, feel-sad film is opening this month in Tel Aviv, New York and Los Angeles, thanks to persistence and the Internet.

Films: Romantic triangle survives in the midst of hell

Tom Tugend November 9, 2007

\”I\’m a very special Holocaust survivor,\” Jack Polak says. \”I was in the camps with my wife and my girlfriend, and, believe me, it wasn\’t easy.\” This may sound like a line from the new genre of Holocaust films with humor, but Polak (who is Jacob on his birth certificate, Jack in America, Jaap to his Dutch friends and Jab to his wife) is just stating the facts in the documentary feature, \”Steal a Pencil for Me.\”

Briefs: Cancer helps Olmert poll numbers, Mrs. El Presidente in Argentina — still good for the Jews

Jewish Journal November 2, 2007

Briefs.

Books: ‘Primo Levi’s Journey’ traces the path of a survivor

Tom Tugend November 2, 2007

In 2005, Italian filmmaker Davide Ferrario decided to mark the 60th anniversary of Primo Levi\’s liberation by retracing the route of the writer\’s journey in January 1945, from Auschwitz to his hometown of Turin, with a camera crew. The result is Ferrario\’s documentary \”Primo Levi\’s Journey\”. Intercutting footage from the 2005 journey with Levi\’s earlier observations on the same places, the film is disorienting in the beginning. Only gradually does it become clear that Ferrario is contrasting how much — and how little — has changed in the 60-year interval.\n

Religious riot act, deaf in Africa, small sculptures, kid paint

Dikla Kadosh September 27, 2007

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Films: Director examines healing from surgery, grief

Calendar Girls picks and kicks for March 8 -15

Movies: ‘Chicago 10’ finds modern parallels to 1968 trial

How the West was funny

Film shows Down syndrome no obstacle to prayer

Yiddish theater documentary opens, thanks to WWW

Films: Romantic triangle survives in the midst of hell

Briefs: Cancer helps Olmert poll numbers, Mrs. El Presidente in Argentina — still good for the Jews

Books: ‘Primo Levi’s Journey’ traces the path of a survivor

Religious riot act, deaf in Africa, small sculptures, kid paint

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